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Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Coal and Coke
Author: West Virginia Coal Fields
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The Black Diamond
Author: Proceedings of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia
Author: West Virginia. Public Service CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Part III of the First annual report 1913/14, "covers the work of the Commission as the administrative board of the Workmen's compensation fund."
West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad
Author: Alan ClarkePublisher: Quarrier Press
ISBN: 9781891852985
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book documents the construction of railroads in West Virginia, largely to access the untouched stands of timber in such counties as Upshur, Webster, Nicholas, and Randolph. Johnson Newlon Camden and Henry Gassaway Davis were the two men that were the driving forces behind these railroads. They were industrialists and politicians as well as friends and rivals. Camden built the Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad connecting Clarksburg and Weston in north central West Virginia. Completed in 1879, it was extended to Buckhannon in the fall of 1883. The West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad soon built extensions from Weston to the Gauley River and south from Buckhannon. Davis started construction of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway in 1880, which followed the North Branch of the Potomac River south into Tucker and Randolph Counties. Sawmills and towns sprang up all along the railroads as vast quantities of lumber were harvested from the forests of West Virginia. As the forests were denuded, mines opened, more towns were built, and coal replaced lumber as the principal freight. While sections of the W. Va. & Pittsburgh have been abandoned, the present day successor to the B. & O. still hauls coal along these rail lines to the voracious power plants of the eastern United States. Author and railroad scholar Alan Clarke has once again offered an in-depth look at the building of railroads in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Much of the technical and historical information in the book will be of special interest to railroad buffs. However, Clarke's grasp of the state at that time in history, as well as the book's vintage photographs, maps, and illustrations, cause this book to appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Mountain State.
The Railway World
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
McDowell County Coal and Rail
Author: Jay ChatmanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143964666X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Over 200 fascinating postcard images show early coal mining in McDowell County and how it progressed throughout the years. Coal was discovered in McDowell County, located in the Billion Dollar Coalfield of southern West Virginia, in 1748, but it was not explored or mined until the early 1800s. Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company shipped the first railroad car of coal in March 1883 via the Norfolk & Western Railway. By the early 1900s, hundreds of mining companies dotted the county's landscape. The coal from McDowell County fueled the nation's home heating and steelmaking businesses and both world wars. As the coal industry developed, the local population grew; by 1950, the county had grown from a few hundred people to more than 100,000. .
The Fuel Manual
Author: United States. Fuel AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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